High T c superconductors and related materials : material science, fundamental properties, and some future electronic applications ; [Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on High T c Superconductors and Related Materials: Material Science, Fun

A broad introduction to high T c superconductors, their parent compounds and related novel materials, covering both fundamental questions of modern solid state physics (such as correlation effects, fluctuations, unconventional symmetry of superconducting order parameter) and applied problems related to short coherence length, grain boundaries and thin films. The information that can be derived from electron spectroscopy and optical measurements is illustrated and explained in detail. Descriptions widely employ the clear, relatively simple, phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau model of complex phenomena, such as vortex physics, vortex charge determination, plasmons in superconductors, Cooper pair mass, and wetting of surfaces. The first comprehensive reviews of several novel classes of materials are presented, including borocarbides and chain cuprates. Front Matter....Pages i-xi The Electronic Structure of High-T c Superconductors: Introduction and Recent Studies of Model Compounds....Pages 1-38 Fermi Surface Mapping by Angle-Scanned Photoemission....Pages 39-50 Magnetic Properties of Low-Dimensional Cuprates....Pages 51-80 Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Cuprate Chains and Related Materials....Pages 81-134 Charge Density Waves with Complex Order Parameter in Bilayered Cuprates....Pages 135-144 Coexistence of Superconductivity and Magnetism in Borocarbides....Pages 145-166 Superconducting Transition Metal Borocarbides....Pages 167-184 Bcs Analysis of The Physical Properties of Nonmagnetic Borocarbides....Pages 185-192 Polarization-Dependent X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy on Single Crystal YNI 2 B 2 C Superconductors....Pages 193-198 P -Wave Superconductivity in Sr 2 RuO4 ....Pages 199-213 Plasma Modes in HTC Superconductors within the Anisotropic London Model....Pages 215-228 Plasma Modes in Thin Superconducting Films....Pages 229-242 Coupling of Intrinsic Josephson Oscillations in Layered Superconductors....Pages 243-248 Nonstationary Josephson and Quasiparticle Tunnel Currents Through Junctions Between Superconductors with Spin-Density Waves....Pages 249-257 Superconducting Fluctuations and Their Role in the Normal State Anomalies of High Temperature Superconductors....Pages 259-288 On the Interplay Between T c -Inhomogeneities at Long Length Scales and Thermal Fluctuations Around the Average Superconducting Transition in Cuprates....Pages 289-322 Electron-Boson Effects in the Infrared Properties of Metals....Pages 323-360 Optical Study of YBCO Thin Films: Spectral Anomales of Low Temperature Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Charges....Pages 361-374 Introduction to D-Wave Superconductivity....Pages 375-386 Nonlocal Electrodynamics at Superconducting Surfaces....Pages 387-412 Fermi Liquid Superconductivity....Pages 413-446 Mesoscopic Normal-Metal Conductivity in the Macroscopic NS System....Pages 447-453 Pinning of Vortices and Linear and Nonlinear Ac Susceptibilities in High- T c Superconductors....Pages 455-486 Wetting Phase Transitions and Superconductivity....Pages 487-504 Bernoulli Effect in the Quantum Hall Regime and Type-Ii Superconductors in Magnetic Field....Pages 505-518 Grain Boundaries and Other Interfaces in Cuprate High- T c Superconductors....Pages 519-528 Enhancement of the Critical Current Density of YBA 2 CU 3 O 7–δ –Films by Substrate Irradiation....Pages 529-534 Design of HTS dc SQUID Gradiometer for Application in Nondestructive Evaluation and Biomagnetism....Pages 535-552 Back Matter....Pages 553-559 Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in Albena, Bulgaria, 13-26 September 1998